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Chapter 285 Start exploring

Liang En and the others were allocated two cars, so Pierce and Fan Meng had one, and Liang En and Jeanne had one.Because Joan of Arc can't drive, Liang En naturally drove.

"I'm definitely going to learn to drive this time when I go back." Looking at Liang Enzhende who was holding the steering wheel beside her with an embarrassed expression on her face, it seemed to her that it was too inappropriate for the lord to drive for her.

"It's okay, this era is different from yours, and driving has nothing to do with status." Liang En said with a smile. "But it's a good thing that you learn to drive. If the society doesn't know how to drive, some things will be very troublesome."

On both sides of the road is the vast Gobi, the sun scorched the stones and gravel on the roadside, and even mirages appeared in the distance.

Different from the urban area, the roads here are very empty, and only a few minutes will pass by a large truck or bus, and occasionally there will be one or two private cars.

However, this kind of road is also convenient for them to travel quickly, so in just two hours, a few of them successfully reached the border between Utah and Nevada and merged with the eight pickup trucks waiting here.

"I feel that the Native Americans in this place seem to be in a much better condition than the Natives in other places." When everyone formed a team and continued westward, Liang En adjusted the intercom to the internal frequency and said to Pierce in the car behind.

Because he had also seen some aborigines during his previous trips to the United States, but these aborigines looked obviously poor and poor, and at the same time lacked that spirit in their eyes.

And these aborigines who joined them, although it seems that the economic conditions are only average, but they have a kind of positive spirit that is lacking in other places.

What Liang En doesn't know is that his judgment is very consistent with the official statistics of the United States. According to the official statistics of the United States, these aborigines' alcoholism, use of narcotic drugs, life expectancy and even suicide rate are far higher than those of other ethnic groups. Oops.

"Because this group of Native Americans living in northern Nevada is rare and still maintains traditional settlement customs, and has not been tricked by the official US policy." After hearing Liang En's question, Pierce quickly answered.

It turned out that after entering the 20s, the Americans couldn't bear the Native Americans who had to live on federal funding because they were driven to desolate land, so they decided to let them support themselves.

But this kind of self-reliance is nothing else than allowing Indian tribes to operate casinos in their protected areas, or to buy and sell tax-free tobacco in order to reduce their dependence on federal finances.

But there are a lot of problems with this kind of brainstorming policy. To give the simplest example, operating a casino costs money, and Native Americans have little money.

In this way, at best, the casino will use Native Americans as a display, and the money will be made by the wealthy investors behind the scenes. It is impossible for most Native Americans to obtain real benefits.

Although the casino can provide some jobs, the casino also brought great chaos, and brought all the bad things from the outside world into the Indian reservation.

After all, under the circumstances, gambling is often associated with pornography and drugs, so since the establishment of the casino, except for a few people who did make a lot of money from it, the overall level of the entire tribe has dropped significantly.

However, this group of Goshuit Indians did not open casinos not because of their high moral quality, but because of their reservation in the remote northeastern part of Nevada.

As we all know, each state in the United States also has its own legislative power, so whether gambling is legal or not varies from state to state.

Nevada, an inland western state with harsh natural conditions, has declared state-wide gambling legal since the 19th century, and was the only state in the United States that allowed legal gambling for nearly a hundred years before New Jersey approved gambling in 1976.

In this way, it is naturally impossible for the Goshuit Indians to open a casino in their reservation, because if gambling is legal in the whole state, their remote casino will not attract many people.

As for duty-free tobacco, it is indeed sold in the reservation, but also because the location is too remote, it can only be sold to drivers who come and go on the interstate highway.

That would make some money, but not as much as the reservations that run casinos and do some of the more dangerous illegal activities.

"However, they have some good semi-precious stones produced here, such as Opal and so on. My family used to buy from here." Finally Pierce said.

"However, because the level of industrial mining is not enough, the overall mining area is scattered and scattered, so the supply of those goods is not stable. Sometimes I can buy a bunch of good goods, but sometimes there is nothing to sell at all. "

"To be honest, such a mine is the best for the aborigines." After Pierce said this, Liang En couldn't help but say. "If it's really a big mine, do you think these people can really keep it?"

"You're right." Hearing what Liang En said, Pierce also reacted. Judging from the power that this group of Native Americans have, if they really have a big iron mine in their hands, they will definitely not be able to keep it.

Compared with those big companies, the power of this group of Native Americans is too small, so if they have too much wealth, it is like children holding money in the downtown area, which is even more dangerous.

In the middle of the exchange, they quickly entered the destination of this trip.After stopping at the intersection to discuss, the Native Americans quickly drove in groups of two and dispersed to search.

After Liang En and the others got the weapons brought by the other party, they naturally joined in the search work. While driving along the road, they released the ravens to search the surroundings.

"Is your information safe?" Pierce asked curiously as he drove forward. "It's almost 200 years later, what if the road changes?"

"The general direction of this road will never change." Liang En said while communicating with the ravens, "Don't forget that this is the Gobi Desert, and most human activities center on water sources unfolded."

"Especially for those pre-industrial people, if the road is too far from the water source, it is difficult for them to get the water they need to move forward."

"That's right." Pierce finally realized what Liang En said.After all, he was mainly active in Europe before, and the climate there did not need to consider too many things related to water sources.

"I think these aborigines should be able to design checkpoints near the main road, but it is impossible to seal off the entire area." Half an hour after starting the search, Fan Meng said suddenly.

"This space is really too big, so the group of robbers could easily bypass the post and enter this land and go to the sacred place of these aborigines."

"You're right, we don't even know if the other party will come." Liang En said with a sigh. "But that's the only way we can get down there."

"If I had that pipe in my hand, I might have found more clues, but now it's amazing to be able to do this with photos alone."

(End of this chapter)